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She was a 15-year-old school kid; came in with multiple episodes of seizures ('epileptic fit' in street language). IV injections controlled her fits; CT scan and MRI painlessly sliced through her brain; millimeter by millimeter searching for a focus; negative. 24-hours later she was stable and ready to be started on long term medicines to prevent recurrences.

Some 85 percent of people in the United States had an encounter with a health professional in the past year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Most patients will never experience unintended medical harm, but health care can be high risk, and technological and treatment advances continually create new opportunities for safety lapses. While the field has made considerable progress in advancing targeted patient safety i

We have been emphasising inappropriate Care as a core patient safety issue all these years. The WHO report below reiterates the same.
Low quality healthcare is increasing the burden of illness and health costs globally

5 July 2018 Geneva

Poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels, according to a new joint report by the OECD, World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Ban

Anticonvulsant medications like gabapentin and pregabalin don't appear to improve low back pain, a meta-analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds.

Researchers examined nine studies of nearly 900 patients with chronic low back pain or lumbar radicular pain. Patients received either anticonvulsants (gabapentinoids or topiramate) or placebo. Gabapentinoids had no effect on low back pain or disability, but topiramate appeared to h

Research has repeatedly shown that U.S. patients receive recommended care only half of the time. It is also known that patients receive non-recommended or "low-value" care as much as 20% of the time. Despite the proliferation of evidence-based guidelines to improve clinicians' practice patterns, clinicians often don't respond to them. So healthcare leaders have long wondered: what's the best way to change clinicians' behavior and improve their qu

Some nights I lie awake and think about patients from the past. Mistakes play back like a movie reel in my mind. Some details are now lost to me, as many of these mistakes hark back to when I was a resident. But the sick sensation of realizing an error comes back as vividly as if it were happening now. Why didn't I immediately transfer the patient with a suspected gastrointestinal bleed to the intensive care unit? Shouldn't I have made a diagnosi

No single measure will unravel the unsustainable problem of rising medical negligence costs. However, several key activities-in the context of a continued requirement to increase expenditure-might help: the promotion of candour, the advocacy of a problem-solving culture rather than one based on blaming the individual, and the improvement in quality of a service that has, for 70 years, been crucial in delivering equitable health care for millions

Medical students from around the world utter the Hippocratic Oath when graduating medical school as an age-old commitment to professionalism. Yet, much of what we are taught during medical school conflicts with the oath's focus on communication and shared-decision making. There is a hidden curriculum in medicine that encourages trainees to do extensive workups to demonstrate their knowledge and curiosity. Choosing Wisely campaigns, in Canada and

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The West Bengal Assembly on Thursday passed a bill to regulate functioning of private health facilities, providing for up to three-year jail terms and trials under the IPC for offenders and fines up to Rs 50 lakh in case of death of patients due to medical negligence.

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Anticonvulsant medications like gabapentin and pregabalin don't appear to improve low back pain, a meta-analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds. Researchers examined nine studies of nearly 900 patients with chronic low back pain or lumbar radicular pain.Patients received either anticonvulsants (gabapentinoids or topiramate) or placebo.
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We have been emphasising inappropriate Care as a core patient safety issue all these years. The WHO report below reiterates the same. Low quality healthcare is increasing the burden of illness and health costs globally
Read More …

She was a 15-year-old school kid; came in with multiple episodes of seizures ('epileptic fit' in street language). IV injections controlled her fits; CT scan and MRI painlessly sliced through her brain; millimeter by millimeter searching for a focus; negative. 24-hours later she was stable and ready to be started on long term medicines to prevent recurrences.
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